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Coal Ash Waste – Call the House Committee now

Posted in Coal, tagged coal ash waste, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tell them that the testimony being given is based upon false premises and they should not vote for HR 2273 when the Committee hearing resumes at 3 pm EST. According to the National Academy of Science (NAS) Coal Combustion Residues or waste (CCR’s) contain numerous hazardous metals and substances with hazardous characteristics including arsenic, lead, [...]

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Urgent Action Needed! – Coal Ash Battle in US Senate

Posted in Coal, Energy, Toxics, tagged action, ash, Coal, coal ash, coal ash waste, Congress, EIP, Global Warming, landfill, senate, urgent, us on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Senate is about to hear legislation pertaining to coal ash waste regulation. There is an amendment proposed to slash EPA’s funding so that they cannot enforce safeguards at coal ash waste landfills. The following is a message from our friends with Environmental Integrity Project. Please take a few moments to contact your senator and [...]

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Report Shows Dangers of Coal Ash Waste Sites Throughout the US

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged ash, Austin, climate change, Coal, coal ash waste, EIP, environmental integrity project, EPA, Global Warming, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, report, study, Texas, waste on August 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »

In Winter of 2008 a coal ash slurry pond in Tennessee broke its damn, contaminating miles of downstream waterways and people’s homes with deadly carcinogens and other toxic substances. At the time it was called the worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez and brought a wake up call to the EPA that this waste [...]

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Want an EPA Public Hearing on Coal Ash Waste?

Posted in Coal, tagged coal ash waste, EPA, Public Hearings on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to set federal safeguards for millions of tons of dangerous coal ash waste currently being stored in dry dumps and waste ponds. You can help set EPA on a straight course towards the first ever strong, federally enforceable safeguards for coal ash. And judging from the current proposal, it seems like the EPA [...]

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National Day of Action Against Coal Waste

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged ash, call, Coal, coal ash waste, coal plant, contamination, disaster, environment, Global Warming, national day of action, obama, president, Tennessee, TVA, waste, white house on January 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »

TODAY is our National Coal Ash Day of Action - please ask the White House to allow the US EPA to finally regulate coal ash as the hazardous waste it is. Currently, coal ash is less regulated than household trash! This toxic waste stream has never been regulated and that must change, now. 1. Please [...]

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More Astroturf: “Faces of Coal” are actually IStock Photos

Posted in Coal, tagged Coal, coal ash, clean coal, coal industry, american coalition for clean coal electricity, coal ash slurry spill, coal plant, coal ash spill, coal ash waste, mountain top removal, coal mining, coal mines, astroturf, Faces of Coal on August 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Rule #1 for being an organization even pretending to be a grassroots movement: Actually have some grassroots supporters. Even manufactured outrage groups ginned up by Freedomworks or the Tea Bag people or United Health Care actually have people who believe and will regurgitate their corporate PR spin. But, presumably because the coal industry couldn’t find [...]

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Week-End wrap-up: global warming is REAL, coal ash “too dangerous”

Posted in Global Warming, Coal, Energy, tagged Global Warming, Coal, Barbara Boxer, coal ash, Kingston, climate change, Carbon Dioxide, greenhouse gas, coal ash slurry spill, co2, coal ash spill, greenhouse gas emissions, coal ash waste on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For any of you global warming denier trolls lurking out there, here you finally have it: ANOTHER final study that undeniably shows a link between manmade greenhouse gas emissions and the warming that has occurred. Yes, yes, and the sky is blue as well. AND the Earth revolves around the sun. I know most of [...]

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Texas Tops List of States at Risk From Toxic Coal Ash Waste

Posted in Coal, tagged coal ash, coal ash waste, coal combustion waste, daily texan, Dallas Morning News, eddie rodriguez, hb 1450, matt stephens, natural resources defense council, neighbors for neighbors, nrdc, randy loftis, toxic coal-ash waste, travis brown on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A while back we held a press conference to highlight the scale of Texas’ coal combustion waste problem. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently released a report which found that Texas is the worst state in the nation in terms of toxic coal-ash waste that will result from proposed dirty coal-fired power plants. I [...]

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